So, I LEARNED it from Hannah.

Ashley giggled. "Yup," she said. "So. Well, I LEARNED it from Hannah," she told the others.

Taylor raised her eyebrows and gave Hannah a side-eyed glance. Heather's head rested on the college girl's flat belly as Heather relaxed after her climax.

Hannah, for once, looked sheepish, and shrugged. "Um," she said. "It's...a captain thing?"

"Wha...?" Heather said. "I never heard of it." Azure Rocks High School's current captain of cheerleaders frowned.

Hannah said, "When Bianca was captain, she picked me out as her choice for next year. Over the summer, she helped me practice some moves, and this was one of them. She had a book with notes from up to, I don't know, ten years back. Maybe more. A letter from each year's captain to the future captains. And this was in there."

Taylor rolled her head left and right and yawned.

"That old book...?" Heather said. "I found a couple of routines for this year's squad, but it was mostly just old stuff. I put it back in storage."

Hannah laughed. "You didn't make it to the end, huh? Did last year's captain help get you ready to go for it this year?"

"I was out of town on my exchange year," Heather said. "I went to cheer camp over the summer. My team won tops. And I came back and won captain."

Hannah looked at Ashley. "Let that be a lesson to you, Brat," she said. "I did my best for you and you still got aced by the dark horse." She looked at Heather. "You were away. That's why you never got it."

Heather looked at Ashley. "So you...?"

"Don't look at me, Captain," Ashley said. "You beat me fair and square. I didn't know there was a secret book. I got it all from Hannah."

Heather looked at Ashley and back to Hannah. "Soo...this was a secret cheerleader captain thing? And you taught her?"

"Bianca said it was a tradition," Hannah said. "And since Brat here..."

"Wait a minute!" Ashley protested.

"Since Ashley here," Hannah continued, "got on the wrong side of last year's captain, she wasn't gonna get any help there."

"Paula got on the wrong side of me," Ashley insisted. "She tried to make me do things for her and I wasn't gonna go for it. Tried to get me in trouble, but Coach could tell she was making it up. She was so bad about it that she had to sit out the last game. She came, but she put on a fake ankle wrap."

"Soo-oh?" Heather said.

"So," Hannah said. "Well, you know. Bianca could tell that, well, if I'm not exactly gay, I've got my feet on both sides of the fence. Well, at that point I didn't have my feet down, I hadn't done anything."

Ashley giggled. "I can just see it."

Hannah rolled her eyes at her sister and looked back at Heather. "And Bianca, well, she had a boyfriend, but, well, it was mostly because it was sort of the expected thing. I think they were having sex, but they weren't romantic at all. So she let me know she was interested in me that way, but nothing doing till school was out."

Heather nodded.

"It was exciting for me, you know, I'd had casual dates in school, but this was different. After I knew she was interested in me, I came to all the practices, stayed late, tried my best to learn from Bianca on how she did her thing as a captain. Then come summer..." Hannah sighed. "I'd just gotten my real driver's license, you know, at eighteen. And I found out that some of the way Bianca held together the senior cheer girls was sex."

"You never..." Ashley said.

"You weren't listening when I told you," Hannah said. "Bianca had separate practices at her house for the senior squad. Real practices, new moves, new cheers, talking about what got a rise out of the fans. But part of why they were the way they were was that Bianca was a better lover than their boyfriends. And licking ass -- she'd learned that from last year's captain -- was her secret weapon. For girls who liked it, that's where they had to go. And they had to give it back. I was hoping Ash would be captain. So I taught her what Bianca taught me."

Heather frowned. "You'd think I would have heard something. I mean, that's quite the story."

"I never got to use Bianca's secret weapon," Hannah said. "None of my senior squad was even near the fence. I tried. They were Clueless Straight Girls Number One through Five. At least then. I found out Becky came out of the closet just this year. But not then. So I was all by the book."

"But this year," Ashley said.

Hannah laughed. "Yeah, this year is way closer to the fence. So when Ash wanted to go out for captain, she asked me how I did it."

"I begged," Ashley said.

"I helped her with routines, I told her Bianca's tips on keeping the squad in line," Hannah said.

"I pleaded," Ashley said. "It's a popularity contest, too. And I was popular with last year's squad, but not THAT popular."

Heather laughed. "Well, I wasn't popular at all. I was gone."

"Were too," Ashley said. "All your friends were talking about your pictures and FaceTime calls." She nodded. "So I begged and pleaded, and Hannah asked me about who was trying out, you know, Sue and Brenna are actually a couple, and Bonnie was kinda looking at girls that way. And Hannah told me about Bianca's secrets."

"But...?" Heather said.

"I HAD TO KNOW," Ashley said.

Hannah dipped her head. "She wore me down." She looked back up at Heather. "So I showed her how. And then when she goes to try it on me, well."

"Ahahaha!" Ashley said. "To the moon!"

Taylor curled her head off the bed and looked Hannah straight in the eye.

Hannah's cheeks were bright pink. "She was better than Bianca."

"OH," Taylor said.

Hannah nodded. "Yeah."

"What a world," Taylor said. She let her head rest back on the bed.

Heather felt her cheeks get warm. Her nipples stiffened and her juices started flowing. "Um," she said.

"Well, I want a nap," Taylor said. "Hanners, you with me?"

"Yeah," Hannah said. "Little sisters out."

Ashley gave a pointed, breathy sigh but didn't protest. She put her clothes back on. "Call you when it's lunch?"

Taylor yawned. "Nope. And toss our socks back in here. Everyone knows, but, you know."

"Okay," Ashley said. She looked at Heather.